Abstract
PEO C4I and Space plans to institutionalize a form of Open Source development for all software development programs. We will have a Distributed Development Web Environment (DDWE) where we will host a growing portfolio of fully commented source code and executables. Site access, resources and authorities will be managed by the government and will have a complete compliment of distributed development tools and capabilities e.g. Access controls, CM, automated T&E, quarantine, List serves, etc... Our approach is unrestricted rights and we are working with our contracts/legal folks to articulate specific language for our s/w development community e.g. industry/government. We understand that employing Open source this way will increase competition, improve quality, readily bring in new solution perspectives, provide alternatives to de facto software development vendor lock situations and enable us to deliver the war fighter capability quicker, better and for less cost. Our DDWE infrastructure will incorporate OS's and tools from open source community e.g. Linux, Source Forge etc... There is also a software developers guide for the site which stipulates solutions shall be comprised of clearly purposed discrete capabilities with standardized interfaces that will allow us to assemble (reuse) these small parts into to new capabilities. |
